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    Message from the President – Winter 2016

    Listed below are generous groups and inspiring individuals who have helped make The Florida Bar Foundation’s work possible over many years. Those in our Lifetime Giving Societies have made major contributions to support the Foundation’s mission of providing greater access to Justice. They include many Foundation Fellows who have taken

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    Blackwell Receives 2016 Tobias Simon Award

    Florida Bar Foundation CEO Bruce Blackwell receives Tobias Simon Award When Florida Bar Foundation CEO Bruce B. Blackwell accepted the 2016 Tobias Simon Award at the Florida Supreme Court Jan. 28, he shared The Florida Bar’s highest public service honor with all of those who endeavor to ensure justice for

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    A long legal road leads to a permanent home for Brittney

      Brittney Carroll, 11, smiles broadly and extends her hand in greeting to welcome a visitor to her family’s Tallahassee farm, where she and her six siblings help care for a menagerie that includes dogs, cats, ponies, goats, chickens, rabbits, a donkey and a cow named Buttercream. Born prematurely and

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    Laid off legal aid attorney continued pro bono on case ending with $17.4 million verdict

    by Nancy Kinnally To most Floridians the town of Felda in Hendry County is little more than an overlooked dot on a state map, but to five women who worked in the Moreno Farms packing house there it became their own little corner of Hell. Maria del Carmen Aguilar, one